Lothar Bucher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lothar Bucher

Prussian publicist

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1817

Place of Birth: Szczecinek, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 12-Oct-1892

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Lothar Bucher

  • Lothar Bucher (October 25, 1817 – October 12, 1892) was a German publicist and trusted aide of German chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
  • Bucher was born in Neustettin, Pomerania, his father being master at a gymnasium.
  • After studying at the University of Berlin he adopted the legal profession.
  • Elected a member of the National Assembly in Berlin in 1848, he was an active leader against the democratic party.
  • With others of his colleagues he was in 1850 brought to trial for having taken part in organizing a movement for refusal to pay taxes; he was condemned to fifteen months imprisonment in a fortress, but left the country before the sentence was executed.
  • For ten years he lived in exile, chiefly in London; he acted as special correspondent of the National Zeitung, and gained a great knowledge of English life; and he published a work, Der Parliamentarismus wie er ist, a criticism of parliamentary government, which shows a marked change in his political opinions.
  • In 1860, Bucher returned to Germany, and became intimate with Ferdinand Lassalle, who made him his literary executor.
  • In 1864 he was offered by Bismarck a high position in the Prussian foreign office, which he accepted.
  • The reasons that led him to a step which involved so complete a break with his earlier friends and associations are not clearly known.
  • From this time until his death he acted as Bismarck's aide, gaining a large amount of his confidence.
  • It was Bucher who drew up the text of the constitution of the North German Confederation; in 1870 he was sent on a confidential mission to Spain in connection with the Hohenzollern candidature for the Spanish crown; he assisted Bismarck at the final negotiations for the Treaty of Frankfurt, and was one of the secretaries to the Congress of Berlin; he also assisted Bismarck in the composition of his memoirs.
  • Bucher, who was a man of great ability, had considerable influence, which was especially directed against the economic doctrines of the Liberals; in 1881 he published a pamphlet criticizing the influence and principles of the Cobden Club.
  • He identified himself completely with Bismarck's later commercial and colonial policy, and probably had much to do with introducing it, and he did much to encourage anti-British feeling in Germany.
  • He died at Glion, Switzerland.

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